Subject: Re: MBR partitioning
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/14/2002 15:15:04
>I'm reading between the lines here, but if I understand the situation
>then OpenBSD has discovered that some (all?) versions of Open
>Firmware support FDISK partitioning with MS-DOS formatted partitions
>and can load ofwboot from the MS-DOS partition.
from what I see in NetBSD INSTALL.txt, i think it natural,
if you interpret "MS-DOS filesystem" as "MS-DOS partition within
FDISK-partitioned harddisk".
itojun
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o Open Firmware 1.0.5, Open Firmware 1.1.22, Open Firmware 2.0.x
- MS-DOS filesystem
o Open Firmware 2.4
- MS-DOS filesystem
o Open Firmware 3
- MS-DOS filesystem